On the day Andy Burnham spoke of the wrong turn Britain took under Thatcher, football was facing a day of reckoning over its own story of corporate acquisitionIt was somehow fitting that Tuesday’s damning ruling against...
Read MoreFriday’s verdict against Manchester City will change everything we understood about their Premier League title triumphsWelcome, then, to the age of asterisk. Whatever punishment Manchester City and their owners receive at the...
Read MoreThe order of discovery related to Fifa’s failed plan to sell the World Cup will worry the American president, a situation that tends to end badly for the culprit“Tell Mike it was just business. I always liked him.”“He...
Read MoreYou’ve got to admire the Fifa president’s chutzpah in trying to flog off football’s greatest prize. If only Uefa wasn’t being so pesky about it allImagine a plan so distasteful that even the Americans and a Middle Eastern...
Read MoreEmerging from this week with unity over Fifa’s World Cup sell off was quite an acheivement but Europe cannot rest on its laurelsIt was a phrase not always heard when Europe’s football associations discuss a pressing issue....
Read MoreIf you thought he was just a shady rule-dodging reprobate, the Fifa boss’s latest 15-page Instagram rant might make you think againI hope you have found time to enjoy Fifa president Gianni Infantino’s 15-page Instagram meltdown...
Read MorePrime-minister-in-waiting has been a key figure in overhauls behind the scenes of the game, as well helping to create the Hillsborough Independent PanelPicking up the country when it is in a slump of self-doubt is perhaps within...
Read MoreSuella Braverman presses the FA to scrap diversity and inclusion policies, which she claims are ‘racist’Reform UK has been accused of seeking to insert “toxic politics” into football after the party pressed the Football...
Read MoreFormer prime minister Tony Blair paid tribute to Triesman as a ‘vital part of the New Labour movement’Lord Triesman, a former Labour minister and chair of the Football Association, has died at the age of 82. The Labour party...
Read MoreFifa and Uefa found to be ‘abusing a dominant position’Super League backers say football is ‘free’ and reveal new plansUefa has been found to be “abusing a dominant position” in the way it applies its rules, leaving the...
Read MoreUefa review says Liverpool and Real Madrid fans could have diedFrench police, football federation and ministers also criticised Uefa bears “primary responsibility” for the catastrophic organisational and safety...
Read MoreFifa president compares Qatar issues with his own upbringing‘Don’t criticise Qatar’, Infantino tells press conference in DohaThe Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, has hit back at criticism of Qatar from Europe...
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